Gado Gado Portland Breakfast

February 6, 2019 by Leave a Comment

I have been a fan of Gado Gado Portland, a PDX popup featuring Southeast Asian food, by Thomas and Mariah Thomas Pisha-Duffly over the past year. Their food menu has varied drawing inspiration from all over Asia but usually with nods towards Indonesia from which inspired their Portland popup name. I was thrilled that now they are working on a brick and mortar restaurant home in the Hollywood Neighborhood for spring. Until then they are still a pop-up and probably will be testing out what will go on the menu for their anticipated dinners and brunches. I think the recent Gado Gado Portland Breakfast at Guilder during the past MLK weekend was just the start of seeing what people have interest in.

Gado Gado Portland Breakfast pop up at Guilder during MLK weekend 2019 Gado Gado Portland Breakfast pop up at Guilder during MLK weekend 2019

I’m always excited to see Asian breakfasts. I never thought that Portland would fall in love with Chinese breakfast – but Master Kong has brought congee and jian bing crepes into the common food vocabulary here in PDX so there’s a real chance to expand beyond our donuts or biscuits and gravy and into more types of international breakfast options. Having Gado Gado Portland Breakfast will be a popular standby for me when they open, whether or not the breakfast items I had a chance to try will all be there. The recent pop up included

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First Look at Outer Darkness Donuts

June 10, 2018 by Leave a Comment

From the creative minds who delivered deliciousness with fun and the embracing of wanting to try multiple tastes on the sample plate via Hunnymilk popup brunch is a new popup, Outer Darkness Donuts. They just launched last weekend on Sunday June 3, and here’s my first look at Outer Darkness Donuts. Similar to Hunnymilk, there are no reservations and it’s best for groups of 2 or 4 or no more then 8 maximum. Outer Darkness Donuts pops up only on Sundays, at Jacqueline (2039 SE Clinton St), from 8am-4pm.
My first look at Outer Darkness Donuts, which on offer here only on Sundays are dark roast drip coffees, fun mimosas, loose leaf tea, and only one food dish you can order: a flight of mini-donuts. My first look at Outer Darkness Donuts, which on offer here only on Sundays are dark roast drip coffees, fun mimosas, loose leaf tea, and only one food dish you can order: a flight of mini-donuts.

On offer here are dark roast drip coffees, fun mimosas, loose leaf tea, and only one food dish you can order: a flight of mini-donuts. You will get both savory and sweet bites, and I was very impressed by how each mini donut was a strong statement of flavors and beautifully presented like this is their regular restaurant, not that they are just taking over for part of a day.

Don’t be intimidated by the dark roast coffees – they had a great variety of sweeteners including local honey of course, but also find salted caramel, local honey, agave syrup, corainder dulce de leche, chocolate rum syrup, and nutella! Make any of these Irish coffees with an upgrade of Jameson and Baileys.
My first look at Outer Darkness Donuts, which on offer here only on Sundays are dark roast drip coffees, fun mimosas, loose leaf tea, and only one food dish you can order: a flight of mini-donuts.

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Fimbul Icelandic Dinner Spring 2018

March 16, 2018 by 4 Comments

Fimbul PDX is a pop up focused on Scandinavian and Icelandic cuisine. I raved about the dinner I attended last year, and am excited to see what they do this year. They took a little bit of a break as Matt and Aurora welcomed their beautiful daughter last year, but seem to be ramping up for more this year. After a short research trip by the Matts to Iceland, there is a possibility that we’ll be seeing more frequent offerings of Fimbul dinners (possibly even twice a month?!), so make sure you are following them on their email list (sign up on the website) and social media to be in the know! In the meantime, he’s a look at the recent dinner I attended, the Fimbul PDX Spring 2018 dinner on March 13.
Fimbul Icelandic Dinner Spring 2018

They do have one dinner already planned – a collaboration with Johan Vineyards for their annual wine dinner in the vineyard on August 25th, 2018. Tickets available through Johan (info@johanvineyards.com). Expect that dinners may sell out, and you need to make reservations. The usual Fimbul pop up dinners are ticketed off their website, and you can choose to purchase just the prix fixe dinner, add on wine pairings, or purchase beverages a la carte there. The wine pairings for this dinner were all Wines by Johan Vinyards, and there were also spirits like Brennivin and Opal, both which are Icelandic liqueurs.

For the Fimbul Icelandic Dinner Spring 2018 edition, I attended the 5:30pm seating, and they did an amazing job of prepping beforehand so that we were out as the 7:30pm seating was coming in. Here’s the menu, and then I’ll go through my thoughts course by course.
Fimbul Icelandic Dinner Spring 2018 Fimbul Icelandic Dinner Spring 2018
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Pop Up Shabbat

October 13, 2017 by 5 Comments

I attended a previous Breaking Breads pop up earlier this year, and when I saw they were going to throw a Pop Up Shabbat, I was quick to sign up. The dinner was hosted by Martha Holmberg (current CEO of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, award winning cook book author including the co-author of the best-selling cookbook Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables with Joshua McFadden) and Kristin Spear (founder of FaithHaus) with special guest Devra Ferst (a New York City based food writer and editor who has written for Bon Appetit, Vogue, NPR, Conde Nast, and more). Dinner proceeds of the Pop Up Shabbat, and in lieu of gratuity envelopes were provided, that benefit Sack Lunch PDX, a Portland team of Chefs Cycle, a nationwide fundraiser for the No Kid Hungry campaign.
Breaking Breads Dinner Series Pop Up Shabbat Breaking Breads Dinner Series Pop Up Shabbat

Have you heard of Shabbat? Shabbat is an observance in the Jewish culture that occurs every Friday night which brings family and friends together to celebrate Sabbath, the seventh day of rest that lasts from sunset Friday to sunset Saturday. Shabbat dinner on Friday night is in many ways similar to a family’s traditional Sunday Supper – but imagine that this is celebrated as a cornerstone of Jewish culture, almost like celebrating a mini-Thanksgiving but more focus on giving thanks and enjoying friends and family then a belly busting meal).
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Paella Sundays at Chesa

August 11, 2017 by 4 Comments

I mentioned Paella Sundays at Chesa in my recent post about Summer Pop Ups in Portland 2017 where I listed pop ups and special summer series events that didn’t make it into my Eater PDX article Portland’s Hottest Supper Clubs, Summer 2017, but wanted to share even more detail! Purchase tickets and see exact dates ahead of time or you can try your luck at walk ins. The next Paella Sunday by the way, is this Sunday (2nd Sunday, August 13, and next August 27!)
Paella Sundays at Chesa Paella Sundays at Chesa
Yep, Chesa the restaurant may be closed, but there’s still the original restaurant Ataula, churros at 180, and on the 2nd and last Sundays the Chesa space is still being used by sexy and down to earth chef couple extraordinares Jose Chesa and Cristina Baéz for Paella Sundays. These take place on the patio towards the back of Chesa, are family friendly and dog friendly. Paella Sundays at Chesa give you a glimpse of a casually enjoying Spanish food with your Spanish best friend’s family patio.
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